George Orwell - Quiz
George Orwell
  • 1. In which year was George Orwell born?
A) 1945
B) 1920
C) 1903
D) 1910
  • 2. What is George Orwell's real name?
A) Alexander Pushkin
B) George Herman Ruth Jr.
C) Winston Churchill
D) Eric Arthur Blair
  • 3. Where was George Orwell born?
A) India
B) England
C) France
D) USA
  • 4. Which war did George Orwell fight in?
A) World War I
B) Vietnam War
C) Spanish Civil War
D) Gulf War
  • 5. Which other famous author was a close friend of George Orwell?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Jane Austen
D) Stephen King
  • 6. What is the subtitle of George Orwell's novel 'Animal Farm'?
A) A Historical Biography
B) A Science Fiction Novel
C) A Thriller
D) A Fairy Story
  • 7. What is the first name of the protagonist in '1984'?
A) Sam
B) Rick
C) Winston
D) Tom
  • 8. What was George Orwell's job in Burma?
A) Pilot
B) Chef
C) Architect
D) Police Officer
  • 9. What is the name of the farm in the novel 'Animal Farm'?
A) Happy Farm
B) Manor Farm
C) Green Pastures Farm
D) Paradise Meadows Farm
  • 10. What is the fictional language created by George Orwell in '1984'?
A) Dreamwords
B) Cooltalk
C) Wordplay
D) Newspeak
  • 11. What is the name of the leader of Animal Farm?
A) Abraham
B) Napoleon
C) Alexander
D) Julius
  • 12. In which year did George Orwell pass away?
A) 1960
B) 1950
C) 1970
D) 1980
  • 13. What pen name did Eric Arthur Blair use for his writing?
A) E.A. Blair
B) George Orwell
C) Eric Blair
D) Arthur Orwell
  • 14. In which year was George Orwell's dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' published?
A) 1949
B) 1938
C) 1950
D) 1945
  • 15. What is the title of George Orwell's work that documents his experience in industrial Northern England?
A) Homage to Catalonia
B) Nineteen Eighty-Four
C) Animal Farm
D) The Road to Wigan Pier
  • 16. Which term, coined by George Orwell, describes totalitarian and authoritarian social practices?
A) Newspeak
B) Big Brother
C) Doublethink
D) Orwellian
  • 17. Who was George Orwell's principal tutor at Eton?
A) A. S. F. Gow
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Cyril Connolly
D) Steven Runciman
  • 18. What was George Orwell's father's occupation in the Indian Civil Service?
A) Lawyer
B) Doctor
C) Teacher
D) Sub-Deputy Opium Agent
  • 19. Where did Eric Blair first meet Cyril Connolly?
A) Wellington College
B) Eton College
C) Henley-on-Thames school
D) St Cyprian's School
  • 20. Which school did George Orwell attend as a day student at age five?
A) Eton College
B) Wellington College
C) A Catholic convent in Henley-on-Thames
D) St Cyprian's School
  • 21. What was the relationship between George Orwell and Jacintha Buddicom?
A) Cousins
B) Teacher-student
C) Adolescent sweethearts
D) Classmates only
  • 22. Which school did Eric Blair attend after St Cyprian's and before Eton?
A) Wellington College
B) Shiplake College
C) Henley Grammar School
D) Harrow School
  • 23. What was the name of George Orwell's essay based on his time at St Cyprian's?
A) Animal Farm
B) Homage to Catalonia
C) Such, Such Were the Joys
D) The Road to Wigan Pier
  • 24. Which of George Orwell's works is an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War?
A) Homage to Catalonia
B) The Road to Wigan Pier
C) Nineteen Eighty-Four
D) Animal Farm
  • 25. What was George Orwell's family background described as?
A) Working-class
B) Upper-class
C) Middle-class
D) Lower-upper-middle class
  • 26. What was the name of George Orwell's first published magazine at Eton?
A) The Election Times
B) Bubble and Squeak
C) College Days
D) Eton Wall Game
  • 27. Which university did George Orwell not attend due to financial constraints?
A) Cambridge University
B) None, he did not go to university
C) Oxford University
D) University of London
  • 28. What was the profession of George Orwell's grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair?
A) Teacher
B) Lawyer
C) Anglican clergyman
D) Opium agent
  • 29. In which year did George Orwell join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma?
A) 1922
B) 1930
C) 1925
D) 1919
  • 30. What was the name of the ship on which George Orwell sailed to Burma?
A) SS Britannia
B) SS India
C) SS Empire
D) SS Herefordshire
  • 31. Where did George Orwell receive his police training in Burma?
A) Maymyo
B) Mandalay
C) Katha
D) Rangoon
  • 32. What was the monthly salary of George Orwell when he completed his training?
A) Rs. 800
B) Rs. 740
C) Rs. 600
D) Rs. 525
  • 33. Which town in Burma was known for having the refinery of the Burmah Oil Company?
A) Moulmein
B) Syriam
C) Maymyo
D) Katha
  • 34. What did George Orwell adopt in Burma that he kept for the rest of his life?
A) Sideburns
B) A beard
C) A pencil moustache
D) No facial hair
  • 35. What did George Orwell's tattoos look like?
A) Dragon designs on his arms
B) Small untidy blue circles on each knuckle
C) Stars on his shoulders
D) Crosses on his wrists
  • 36. In which month and year did George Orwell resign from the Indian Imperial Police?
A) December 1929
B) July 1927
C) September 1926
D) March 1928
  • 37. Which novel by George Orwell was based on his experiences in the Burma police?
A) Burmese Days
B) Animal Farm
C) 1984
D) Homage to Catalonia
  • 38. What did George Orwell write about his experience of executing a prisoner?
A) "A Hanging"
B) Keep the Aspidistra Flying
C) "Shooting an Elephant"
D) Burmese Days
  • 39. Which ethnic group's churches did George Orwell attend in Burma?
A) Burmese
B) Indian
C) Karen
D) Chinese
  • 40. What was the name of the town where George Orwell's maternal grandmother lived?
A) Moulmein
B) Katha
C) Rangoon
D) Maymyo
  • 41. Which author did Orwell consider to be about as good a novelist as one can be today, despite holding 'untenable opinions'?
A) Evelyn Waugh
B) Herman Melville
C) Mark Twain
D) Graham Greene
  • 42. Which city did Orwell visit quickly after his stay in Wigan?
A) Sheffield
B) Manchester
C) Liverpool
D) Barnsley
  • 43. Who described George Orwell and Richard Rees as 'moth-eaten and prematurely aged'?
A) Rosalind Obermeyer
B) Elizaveta Fen
C) Cyril Connolly
D) Mabel Fierz
  • 44. Which political leader's military uprising concerned Orwell in 1936?
A) Oswald Mosley
B) Francisco Franco
C) Harry Pollitt
D) John Strachey
  • 45. Who visited Orwell in March 1949 at the sanatorium?
A) Sonia Brownell
B) Celia Kirwan
C) Eileen Blair
D) Ann Popham
  • 46. Where did George Orwell return to England from in December 1929?
A) Southwold
B) Bramley
C) Paris
D) London
  • 47. Which journal published George Orwell's first article as a professional writer?
A) Le Progrès Civique
B) G. K.'s Weekly
C) Monde
D) New Adelphi
  • 48. Which government department did Celia Kirwan work for when she visited Orwell?
A) Foreign Office
B) Ministry of Defence
C) Home Office
D) Information Research Department (IRD)
  • 49. What was the title of George Orwell's first published essay in English?
A) "A Farthing Newspaper"
B) "How the Poor Die"
C) "La Censure en Angleterre"
D) "The Spike"
  • 50. Who helped Orwell secure accommodation on the island of Jura?
A) E. H. Carr
B) Barbara Ward
C) David Astor
D) Isaac Deutscher
  • 51. Who ran the second-hand bookshop where Orwell worked?
A) Francis and Myfanwy Westrope
B) Richard Rees
C) Nellie Limouzin
D) Jon Kimche
  • 52. In which year was Orwell listed at number 8 on the BBC's The Big Read poll?
A) 2021
B) 2003
C) 2011
D) 1984
  • 53. Who complimented George Orwell's 'clarity and good sense' in a review of 'Down and Out in Paris and London'?
A) Richard Rees
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Max Plowman
D) Cecil Day-Lewis
  • 54. Which magazine accepted George Orwell's work "The Spike" for publication?
A) Le Progrès Civique
B) G. K.'s Weekly
C) Monde
D) New Adelphi
  • 55. Which hospital did George Orwell go to when he fell seriously ill in February 1929?
A) Rue du Pot de Fer Clinic
B) Southwold General Hospital
C) Portobello Road Hospital
D) Hôpital Cochin
  • 56. Who found George Orwell a flat in Parliament Hill?
A) Nellie Limouzin
B) Francis Westrope
C) Mabel Fierz
D) Rosalind Obermeyer
  • 57. Which novel did George Orwell's experiences at the bookshop contribute to?
A) Burmese Days
B) 1984
C) Keep the Aspidistra Flying
D) Animal Farm
  • 58. Where did Orwell move to live on 22 May 1946?
A) Shanghai
B) London
C) Barnhill, Jura
D) Manchester
  • 59. What was the title of George Orwell's first article to appear in England?
A) "How the Poor Die"
B) "The Spike"
C) "La Censure en Angleterre"
D) "A Farthing Newspaper"
  • 60. What illness did George Orwell contract after a motorcycle trip that developed into pneumonia?
A) Influenza
B) A chill
C) Bronchitis
D) Tuberculosis
  • 61. Where did George Orwell settle back into after returning to England?
A) An apartment in Paris
B) The family home at Southwold
C) A flat in London
D) A cottage near Cambridge
  • 62. Who was the clergyman's daughter that George Orwell became acquainted with in Southwold?
A) Brenda Salkeld
B) Ruth Pitter
C) Eleanor Jacques
D) Mabel Fierz
  • 63. What new medicine was used to treat Orwell's tuberculosis?
A) Morphine
B) Streptomycin
C) Aspirin
D) Penicillin
  • 64. What was the side effect Orwell experienced from streptomycin treatment?
A) Toxic epidermal necrolysis
B) Anemia
C) Hypertension
D) Diabetes
  • 65. Who did Orwell marry on 9 June 1936?
A) Sylvia Townsend Warner
B) Joan Rees
C) Eileen O'Shaughnessy
D) Aunt Nellie
  • 66. What type of man did Orwell associate the face he saw in Dickens's writing with?
A) A nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence
B) An indifferent observer
C) A conservative traditionalist
D) A religious zealot
  • 67. Where did George Orwell stay when he first arrived in Manchester?
A) In Wigan
B) Over a tripe shop
C) A common lodging-house
D) At Aunt Nellie's cottage
  • 68. What was the reason Victor Gollancz turned down 'Burmese Days'?
A) Financial constraints
B) Poor writing quality
C) Potential suits for libel
D) Lack of interest in the subject matter
  • 69. What activity did Orwell enjoy outside of writing, as revealed four years later?
A) Cooking
B) Fishing
C) Gardening
D) Hunting
  • 70. Which publishing house published 'Down and Out in Paris and London' on 9 January 1933?
A) Adelphi
B) Faber & Faber
C) Harper & Brothers
D) Victor Gollancz Ltd
  • 71. In which arrondissement of Paris did George Orwell live during early 1928?
A) 7th arrondissement
B) 9th arrondissement
C) 5th arrondissement
D) 3rd arrondissement
  • 72. Who were George Orwell's flatmates at 50 Lawford Road?
A) Francis Westrope and Myfanwy Westrope
B) Rosalind Obermeyer and Elizaveta Fen
C) Jon Kimche and Richard Rees
D) Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall
  • 73. Which author did Orwell describe as a 'good bad poet'?
A) Henry Miller
B) G. K. Chesterton
C) Evelyn Waugh
D) Rudyard Kipling
  • 74. What did Gollancz add to 'The Road to Wigan Pier' while Orwell was in Spain?
A) A disculpatory preface
B) A chapter on the Spanish Civil War
C) An introduction by John McNair
D) A foreword by Richard Rees
  • 75. What was the subject that became George Orwell's obsessive focus in his writings?
A) War
B) Literature
C) Poverty
D) Politics
  • 76. What was Sonia Brownell's health condition when she settled out of court in 1980?
A) She was becoming increasingly ill
B) She had fully recovered
C) She was hospitalized
D) She was in perfect health
  • 77. Which writer did Orwell criticize for devoting himself to 'Roman Catholic propaganda'?
A) G. K. Chesterton
B) George Gissing
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Arthur Koestler
  • 78. Which writer did George Orwell mention as the modern writer who influenced him most?
A) W. Somerset Maugham
B) T. S. Eliot
C) James Joyce
D) D. H. Lawrence
  • 79. Which organization was Orwell mistakenly thought to need papers from for crossing into Spain?
A) Some left-wing organisation
B) The Independent Labour Party
C) The Communist Party of Great Britain
D) The Special Branch
  • 80. In what year was Orwell's essay 'British Cookery' discovered in the British Council's archives?
A) 1984
B) 2019
C) 2000
D) 1946
  • 81. Which author did George Orwell admire and imitate when exploring poorer parts of London?
A) Ruth Pitter
B) Jack London
C) Max Plowman
D) Henri Barbusse
  • 82. What was the name of the tea-house run by George Orwell's sister Avril in Southwold?
A) A tea-house
B) A café
C) A bookstore
D) A bakery
  • 83. What did Orwell's list, given to Celia Kirwan, consist mainly of?
A) Writers with pro-communist leanings
B) Anti-war activists
C) Communist leaders
D) British politicians
  • 84. Where did George Orwell live while working at the bookshop?
A) University College London
B) Parliament Hill
C) Warwick Mansions, Pond Street
D) Lawford Road, Kentish Town
  • 85. What was the name of the group Orwell was a leading figure in?
A) London Writers' Guild
B) British Authors Society
C) Leftist Journalists Union
D) Shanghai Club
  • 86. When did George Orwell stop working at Booklovers' Corner?
A) Beginning of February 1935
B) June 1935
C) August 1935
D) End of January 1936
  • 87. Who shared the job with George Orwell at Booklovers' Corner?
A) Cyril Connolly
B) Richard Rees
C) Mabel Fierz
D) Jon Kimche
  • 88. What type of writing did George Orwell continually support himself through?
A) Playwriting
B) Novel-writing
C) Poetry
D) Book-reviewing
  • 89. Which illness did Orwell suffer from in February 1946?
A) Bronchitis
B) Tubercular haemorrhage
C) Pneumonia
D) Influenza
  • 90. What was the name of the cartoonist who drew strips for Animal Farm?
A) Norman Pett
B) Gary Larson
C) Jim Davis
D) Charles Schulz
  • 91. Where was the Adelphi Summer School held in 1936?
A) Sheffield
B) Manchester
C) Wigan
D) Langham
  • 92. Who gave George Orwell social and financial support while he lived in Paris?
A) His aunt Ellen (Nellie) Kate Limouzin
B) Henri Barbusse
C) Ruth Pitter
D) Max Plowman
  • 93. Where did Orwell go for a sanatorium treatment in January 1949?
A) London
B) Manchester
C) Cranham, Gloucestershire
D) Shanghai
  • 94. Who helped George Orwell find lodgings when he moved to London?
A) John Middleton Murry
B) Ellen Limouzin
C) Ruth Pitter
D) Henri Barbusse
  • 95. Who diagnosed Orwell with tuberculosis in December 1947?
A) An unnamed local doctor
B) David Astor
C) Dr. John Smith
D) A chest specialist from Glasgow
  • 96. Who did Orwell apply to unsuccessfully for papers to go to Spain?
A) John McNair
B) Harry Pollitt
C) Victor Gollancz
D) Frank Meade
  • 97. Which author did Orwell NOT mention in his essay on Charles Dickens?
A) Hemingway
B) Fielding
C) Swift
D) Defoe
  • 98. What was the name of Orwell's cottage in Wallington, Hertfordshire?
A) Langham Cottage
B) Headingley House
C) Bryn Hall
D) The Stores
  • 99. Which coal mine did Orwell visit in Wigan?
A) Bryn Hall
B) Langham
C) Grimethorpe
D) Headingley
  • 100. What was the title of George Orwell's essay based on his experiences at Hôpital Cochin?
A) "A Farthing Newspaper"
B) "La Censure en Angleterre"
C) "The Spike"
D) "How the Poor Die"
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